Mediterranean Checkerboard
Joh. de Haas from Three Lions
Through This Pipe Line Oil Flows from Romania to the Black Sea Port of Constanta
Ice-free even when the Danube is frozen over, Constanta in Dobruja provides a winter outlet for
Romanian oil. Ownership of Dobruja has long been in controversy between Romania and Bulgaria. In
September, 1940, Axis pressure forced Romania to cede most of this province to her Bulgarian neighbor,
but she still holds Constanta.
vate homes, in the real estate man's latest sub
divisions, still reflect Greek influence. The
British Museum looks like the Parthenon at
Athens.
From Pretoria, South Africa, to
Washington, D. C.,
public buildings copy
Greek styles.
Our colleges build Greek theaters and stage
Greek plays. Aristotle gave us the rules for
writing dramas. Greek language and litera
ture are a part of our education. Greek is the
language of the New Testament. Look at the
Greek words in everyday use: ecstasy, enthu
siasm, graphic, alphabet, school, theology,
athlete, olympic.
We revived Greece's old Olympic Games,
and in many an American physician's office
hangs a copy of the code of ethics for doctors
written by Hippocrates.
What student has not sweated over Euclid's
geometry?
Rome took much learning from Greece, who
borrowed some of hers from Egypt and Baby
lonia. But look what we owe to Rome.
Modern hospitals, with their wards, private
rooms, and corridors trace back to old Roman
army hospitals. Excavations prove this.
Language Debt to Classic Rome
Half the nations of the civilized world to
day use the Romance languages-Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, and French. All these
stem from Latin, a peasant dialect originally
spoken in Latium, embracing part of what is
now modern Italy.
Romance languages have been called our
most direct and continuous heritage from these
old lands. Forms of our poetry, epic, lyric,
and dramatic, we owe to Rome. What high
school class orator, what stump-speaking poli
tician, but tries to imitate Cicero?
Our Senate is much like Rome's was. Much
of our law stems from Roman sources.
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